A minimum entropy principle in the compressible multicomponent Euler equations

Abstract

In this work, the space of admissible entropy functions for the compressible multicomponent Euler equations is explored, following up on Harten (J. Comput. Phys. 49 (1983) 151–164). This effort allows us to prove a minimum entropy principle on entropy solutions, whether smooth or discrete, in the same way it was originally demonstrated for the compressible Euler equations by Tadmor (Appl. Numer. Math. 49 (1986) 211–219).